Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the ''gutter'' in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence – to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously ''gappy'' texture, verse novels offer pro...